Visualization for a post fossil city in the near future.
In this scenario, humanity is forced to leave Earth due to unlivable circumstances on the planet. Not possessing the technology to inhabit another planet, current technology is used to escape the unlivable conditions.
From those states that can afford the expense, the population is forced to take refuge in large, state-funded space stations. Poorer countries will probably not be able to evacuate their population, only a fraction, perhaps, and they remain.
The rich and wealthy take refuge in their own more luxurious space dwellings located on the moon, which they bought. Corporations own the means of production and deliver parts and artificially created food to the majority of the population in the state-owned space stations. Commercial spacecraft dominate the space around Earth, offering various forms of entertainment and other distractions to the general population as a means of distraction from the dreadful situation in the cramped state-owned space stations. In return for their generosity, they mine cryptocurrency in people's minds.
The project aims to explore the socio-economic impacts of such a development, as well as the technology necessary and the media attention such a development would generate prior to the event, and reflects on the division between rich and poor, business and government — a relation that will only become glaringly obvious in a place where there is nowhere to hide, such as the space directly orbiting Earth.
The project is still in its infancy and needs a lot more work and research.